Friday, November 16, 2018

I feel that the extreme backlash over The Last Jedi is an emotional overreaction to certain elements in the story that went against people's expectations. If the movie were taken out of the Star Wars context, then as a standalone film it is actually pretty good. It has a few minor problems that I attribute to poor direction, but I just watched it for the 4th time and I still really enjoy it.

The reason that I enjoy The Last Jedi as a Star Wars film is that I am willing to let the story take me where it wanted to go as opposed to expecting it to go where I wanted.

I don't know if it was a hotel before Star Wars, or if somebody just thought that this would be a great place to put a hotel. It appears to me as if these underground structures may have already existed before the movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matmata,_Tunisia